JAMES GREEN

After the excitement of my trip to Vegas and getting some work in, the last couple of weeks have been extremely quiet. It gets very difficult out here and quite lonely when things aren't going according to plan. I am sure this is often down to the way I cope with everything and the fact I take myself to the gym for a few hours on my own as well everyday. Castings have been few and far between unfortunately and things I was hoping to move forward with haven't materialised. For example, my first presenting job out here I was hoping would become a regular occurrence, but I have yet to be called back in. Unfortunately, this is a reason outside of my control as the new channel is yet to launch and has been delayed for a reason. Its back to one of those sayings I have mentioned many times in the past: "NEVER GET YOUR HOPES UP" One of THE hardest things to do as a model, actor, host etc, as you are so often teased with something spectacular that is more often than not taken ...

Last week I booked a lovely job for a company based in Vegas. It was such a surprise as it came out of the blue by a phone call from my agent. It was a job that there wasn't a casting for (which is always nice ;-)) and was booked direct. Basically the casting director or producer for the shoot will search through people that match a criteria set by the client. A shortlist will then be created and the client will pick direct who they want to book. Often the agencies will help to put suitable models up for these jobs as well and very fortunately I was picked as one of them. The job was for a wedding section of one of the hotels out in Vegas and I had the role of the Groom! I have never been a groom before, best man a few times on shoots, but never a groom, so it was a first! ha ha. It was a one day shoot, which meant a flight into Vegas the afternoon before the shoot. From LA, the flight is between 45 minutes and an hour, basically barely enough time to enjoy one beer on the flight! ...

I had a couple of requests recently asking me to describe what a normal day for me over here in Los Angeles consists of. I will try my best to do this, but people need to realise that not one day here is the same as each other. Working as a model and tv host, or even an actor, days can often change so quickly and you need to ensure you are completely flexible to adapt to any changes that may happen. For example, I have just booked a job in Vegas, which I found out about a few days ago. I was due to fly out today but the shoot has been delayed for 2 days, so I have to just adapt to this change and make the most of the delay (if possible). I will try my best to describe a more regular day here. MORNING 8:00am - 8:30am ALARM - Now I have a very loud and annoying alarm I must admit, but I am afraid to change it incase I don't wake up, as I have been known for this in the past ha. Often I don't need to get up this early, but I find myself getting lazy if I just wake up when I wake u...

It's been a really quiet couple of weeks since booking my first presenting gig and I am just finding myself waiting for the channel to launch and for everything to start flowing. That is a dangerous mentality and something that I needed to snap out of quick! After a cancellation of a bit of work, I found myself extremely happy with that as I had 4 castings to go to on Friday. As I discussed previously, castings in LA can be frustrating and it's something that I have needed to put to the back of mind. After a few words from my agent here, I realised that instead of complaining about them, I need to change my attitude towards them and just go for it. Let my personality shine through, so the clients can truly see who I am. Somnetimes things work out and after a schedule change in my favour, I was free to go to the 4 castings, and felt a flood of confidence come through. I was keen to make the most of being around and to ensure that I make the most of the castings. To feel confiden...

On Friday I had my first presenting gig here in Los Angeles. I have been looking forward to this moment for a long long time, something that I have been striving for since moving out here. On Thursday night I had the script sent through for the project and found out what exactly I would be doing and presenting. I had 2 scripts to prepare through as the DJ Locator. Simply enough telling people where big DJ's will be playing during each week. I started to panic slightly as the script was pretty long, but fortunately it would be on a TelePrompter. Recently I brought myself an IPAD 2, one of the main reasons was that a friend of mine told me about some teleprompter applications. Perfect for practicing the script. It's also perfect for preparing for future auditions and to be able to practice my presenting skills. This is something that is absolutely vital in order for myself to improve as a presenter. So, the script was loaded into the app and I spent the evening practicing it and ...

Saturdays in LA are just like a week day and it is treated like that here. Something that I am certainly not used to is having castings on a Saturday, which, when I'm back in the UK, is my favorite day and my day off always. This Saturday I had 2 castings, one was a callback from one of the five I went to on Wednesday. It was the Maybelline casting, where in the first one they just took 3 very quick shots of me and that was it. This time I was expecting a bit more from the casting, as it was a callback after all. But I was completely wrong. All that happened this time was the director for the shoot took shots of me with different expressions. This took about a minute and that was that and I was on my way back home. Ridiculous hey?! They often have up to 4 callback for a job, which is quite incredible. What makes these callbacks so frustrating is that you don't get paid for them at all. So you have to commit more time, more money in travel costs to keep on making them. The clien...

To say I was unprepared is an understatement. To say that it was unexpected is also an understatement. Completely out of the blue the castings kept on coming in, 1 after the other and before I knew it I had 5 for the day, which for guys is pretty much unheard of, especially in recent times. It also gave me a great chance to get out and about and meet some new clients that I haven't met before. I thought I would go through each casting to show you all in more detail what happens during these castings. As there were 5 of them, they all are often extremely different to each other. Before my day began, I had to plan out my day and ensure I would make every single one of my castings on time. This is all well and good before the day begins, but in LA, you never know what will creep up. The traffic is often horrendous and the waiting times at some castings here are unbelievable, so you always need to be prepared for a bit of day. (First casting of the day for True Religion, in Compton) Ea...